~ stick hit on 2
^ orch hit on 2
            [C#m]  [C#m]
6T intro    /    /
[C#m]  They took the whole Cherokee [F#m]nation   /   / Put us on this reser[C#m]vation   /
                                        ~            ~              ~    / ~
/   Took away our way of [F#m]life  /    /      Tomahawk and the bow & [C#m]knife
/ ~       /  ~           ~    / ~           
   Took away our native [F#m]tongue 
/ ~              / ~            ^    / ^    / ^    / ^
   Taught their English to our [C#m]young 
/          /                     /    /         /               ^
   And the things we made by [F#m]hand  / are nowadays made in Ja[C#m]pan
/ ^     /    3& [F#m]  2        /    3& [C#m] 2        /    3&
                     Cherokee people      Cherokee tribe 

[F#m] 2             /      3&  G#7 2             /      [C#m] slide / 
      So pround you lived          So pround you died     

[C#m]           /            [F#m]~    / ~    / ~       /  ~           
bg kb                      1          3 4 1                                   1  3 4
[C#m]  They took the whole indian [F#m]nation   /   / Put us on this reser[C#m]vation

/ ~       /    ~                   /  2   3     4     /       3          
1                        1               3 4 1                                       1  3 4  
/   Tho I wear a shirt & [F#m]tie  /         /   I'm still part  /red man deep in[C#m]side

/       /    3& [F#m]  2        /    3& [C#m] 2        /    3&
1
                     Cherokee people      Cherokee tribe 

 [F#m] 2             /      3&  G#7 2             /      [C#m] slide / 
     So pround you lived          So pround you died     
                                        strings
/STOP  And maybe /some day when they've learned       /           Cherokee /nation will 
                                                                -   -   -    
re[C#m]turn, will re[C#m]turn, will re[C#m]turn, will re[C#m]turn,  will re[C#m]turn
kb to C#